The Irish standard., 1887-08-06
GEN NERAL LABOR NOTES.

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There are about 1ooidle printers in
Washington, d. c. ': S.:
The Illinois State Knights Of Labor
have rejected the George theory Of land.
There are 5000 white and colored
Knights in and around Birmingham,
Ala
Elizabeth, N. j., has twenty three
local assemblies. with membership OF
5000. =
The increase OF heavy machinery is
bringing into use cranes Of enormous
lifting capacity.
Two or three furnaces of the Troy, N.
Y, Steel and Iron Company are in blast,
running On coke.
| Work in the South is abundant in
shops, but common labor is not SO
quickly absorbed.
A natural gas line, to cost ST, ,000, 900.
is to be run through Beaver county, Pa,
to Youngstown, 0.
Indiana gas is freer from sulphur than
is Ohio OR Pennsylvania gas, which is
greatly in it's favor.
Nonpareil L. A. 1914, Dubuque, Ia,
is the only assembly in the State COM
posed entirely Of ladies'.
The iron and steel workers Of England
will meet at Sheffield this month to form
national trades-union.
s. procession OF 5000 Knights OF Labor
was formed at recent labor demonstra-
tion, ip Birmingham, Ala.
Australia recently enjoyed its annual
celebration Of the adoption oi The eight
hour system in tnat country.
Lynn shoe manufacturers say they
never knew customers to be SO urgent
for shipments OF boots and shoes.
A certain class ct the Willmantic
Linen Company employees have had
their wages increased 20 per cent.
The ship building industry ON the
Clyde is greatly depressed. The average
half-yea1ly tonnage since 1878 UP till the
beginning Of the past half year was
126,953 tons; the returns OF tlse past six
months put it at S6,780.
Wooden shoes are being sold in Lon
don for board school children whose
parents too often pawn leather shoes.
They retail at eight to twelve cents per
pair, and have leather cops. They gre
made in Hungary, and Hungarian
agency has been opened for their general
introduction among children.
There are 10000 to IA, 600 men EN-
ployed at the Woolwich Arsenal, Eng
land, which covers $50 acres, exclusive
of the docll-yards. There are se7en
miles Of railway and eighty chimney
stacks, one being 220 feet high. And
this is but fraction OF Britain 8 capacity
for producing goods to facilitate whole
sale murder.
The value Of the glove making in
dustry, in Fulton county, N T., amounts
to about &c. 100000 yearly. The wages
of the most skilful workers the table
cutters, as they are called---run from $68
to $50 month; block cutters get FROM
a55 to $665 monthly, and machine girls
earn, according to their skill, from $6 to
$40 and even $1A week.
Clay Local Assembly No. 6'S9,
knights Of Labor, composed Of brick
makers, has passed q resolution ordering
all, or any, of its members who may be
working in II. Carroll's brick yard, at
Haverford road and Sixtieth street,
Philadelphia, to stop work at once. The
Knights Of Labor have been unable to
effect al adjustment OF the differences
between them and the employer at This
yard.
In recent speech A. O'Cynnor, NJ.
P, said that there are some OO.O0O coal
miners in Britain who raise between 15O
and 200 million CT tons annually, and
that for every 150, tons raised one
man loses his life through preventible
causes. That is, one miner in $50 is
murdered yearly by the greed and selfish
negligence of his employer. They don't
raise hemp enough in Britain, or they
don't apply it properly.
District 30, K. of H., Boston, while IN
session last week, elected dele
gates to the forthcoming grand conven-
tion Of the order. The following is list
Of those who will come to Minneapolis:
Robert Howard, j. G. Short, E.. s. Blaine,
J.y. Crowley, ". B. Patterson, NJ j.
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